These Were the Best Girl-Powered Moments of 2016, According to Malala

Let's face it, when it come to women's rights, 2016 gets mixed reviews at best. But that doesn't mean it was all bad—far from it. The year was full of moments when women and girls broke barriers, blazed new trails, and came together to fight for their rights.

To remind us of that, the Malala Fund made this video featuring women and girls who did awesome things in 2016. It's the girl-power montage of our dreams, and features a ton of inspiring people.

Here are some of our favorites on the list (though let's be real—they're all so inspiring, it was almost impossible to choose just a few):

Hilde Lysiak, the nine-year-old reporter who scooped all the grown-ups when her home-run news site reported on a local murder hours before the town newspaper. And then, when commenters told Hilde to give up the newspaper and stick to more "age appropriate" stuff like tea parties, she posted a badass response on YouTube. "If you want me to stop covering news, then you get off your computer and do something about the news," she said. "There, is that cute enough for you?"

Marley Dias, age 12, who spent the year working to collect 1,000 children's books that featured a black girl as the main character. Marley loves to read, but was sick of reading about white boys and their dogs—so she started the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign. She donated the books to schools so that more children of color could access books with characters that look like them.

Yusra Mardini, a Syrian refugee who swam in the Olympics for the all-refugee team. She fled Syria in 2015, traveling to Turkey and took a dangerous boat ride to Greece. When the boat broke down she, along with a few other passengers who were also swimmers, jumped into the water and pushed the boat for three hours to safety.

Muzoon Almellehan, a Syrian refugee who is now an international advocate for education for refugees. Her activism started on the ground: When she was still living in the refugee camps, Almellehan went door-to-door trying to convince families to educate their young daughters instead of marrying them off.

Amaani Yahya, 22, who is the first female rapper in Yemen. She's using her art form, and her spotlight, to raise awareness about the abuses women face in her war-torn country.